CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium
Call For Presentations
Date: The 2026 CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster took place on Thursday, April 16, 2026.
Event Schedule
TIME ACTIVITY
8:00-9:00 All displays/posters set up
9:00-10:30 Judging: Poster presentation to the judges
10:30-12:00 Poster presentation to the campus and general public
12:00-12:30 Poster take down
Awards were at 3:00 PM in Roy Blunt Hall 101.
Below are the results from this years event.
Deadline: April 7, 2026, 5:00 PM (April 1 is the first day of submission)
Location: PSU Ballroom
Poster Presentation Guidelines
Poster Presentation Judging Criteria Form
About the event
All current CNAS undergraduate students and December 2025 graduates are invited to submit a poster for the CNAS Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Presentations are refereed, and awards are given for first place ($100) and second place ($50) for each CNAS department and the cooperative engineering program.
Contact your advisor for abstract submission instructions information or see the Poster Presentation Guidelines link above
Please submit your abstract to CNAS Dean's Office, CNAS@MissouriState.edu
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Archive of results
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2026 Winners
Biology: Ecology, Wildlife and Conservation
1st Place: Lily Smith, Tanner Conwell, Connor Bruemmer
INFLUENCES OF FISH ON VARIOUS AQUATIC EMERGENT INSECT TAXA ADULT BODY SIZE IN TWO
SMALL, NON-PERENNIAL STREAMS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Deb Finn
2nd Place: Alex Geeslin and Teressa Kruit
ALGAE ON THE MOVE: HOW DEPTH AND SPATIAL VARIATION INFLUENCE ALGAE COMUNITY COMPOSITION
IN LAKE SPRINGFIELD
Faculty Advisor: Dr. La Toya Kissoon-Charles
Biology: Cellular, Microbiology and Genetics
1st Place: Colleen Myers, Mikayla Scharnhorst, Donovan Aardema Faigh
TRANSIENT TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT HYPEREXTENSION IS ASSOCIATED WITH ALTERED FEEDING
BEHAVIORS: SUPPRESSION BY GRAPE SEED EXTRACT
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paul Durham
2nd Place: Ania Kovacs, Nicole Nalley, Amelia Easterling
CALCITIONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE AND GRAPE SEED EXTRACT DIFFERENTIALLY MODULATE EXPRESSION
OF PROTEINS IN TRIGEMINAL GANGLION NEURONS AND GLIA
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paul Durham
Chemistry and Biochemistry
1st Place: Kyle Ramaker
A PATHWAY TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS OF LIFE: INVESTIGATING L-AMINO ACID DOMINANCE
IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Keiichi Yoshimatsu
2nd Place: Alaina Worland
CHARACTERIZATION OF BERGAMOT EXTRACTS AND THEIR INHIBITORY EFFECTS OF HMG-COA REDUCTASE
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Natasha DeVore
Computer Science
1st Place: Christopher Housholder
SCALABLE POLYNOMIAL INTERPOLATION VIA MAPREDUCE AND A NEW RECCURRENCE-BASED QUOTIENT-RING
INTERPOLANT
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Hazhar Rahmani
Cooperative Engineering
1st Place: Tyler Mills and Brandon Butler
HOMEEDEN SPROUT: ITERATIVE DESIGN OF AN AUTOMATED HOUSEPLANT WATERING SYSTEM
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Theresa Odun-Ayo
2nd Place: Kristin Burdin, Elijah Totten, Jonathan Ross
DISCRETE INDUCTIVE WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER FOR LOW-POWER DEVICES
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Theresa Odun-Ayo
School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability: Geology
1st Place: Angel Doran
LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE CONTROLS GEOCHEMICAL DIVERSITY ACROSS THE TERCEIRA RIFT, AZORES
TRIPLE JUNCTION
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Gary Michelfelder
2nd Place: Zackary Rouser, Angel Doran.
FLUORNATROPYROCHLORE FOUND IN SYENITE EJECTA FROM AGUA DE PAU VOLCANO, SAO MIGUEL
ISLANDS, AZORES ARCHIPELAGO
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Gary Michelfelder and Dr. Fei Wang
School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability: Geography, Geospatial and Planning
1st Place: Shey Delahunt
PROPERTY VACANCY IN THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Krista Evans
2nd Place: December Wolf
THE IMPACTS OF FOOD INSECURITY IN THE OZARKS: LOW INCOME, LOW ACCESS RURAL COUNTIES
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Krista Evans
Mathematics
1st Place: Christopher Housholder
THE ROOTS OF DISAGREEMENT
Faculty advisor: Dr. Steven Senger
2nd Place: Christopher Housholder
SPATIAL-TEMPORAL NONLOCAL TRAFFIC DYNAMICS: ANALYTICAL PROPERTIES, ADAPTIVE KERNAL
FORMULATION, AND EMPIRICAL VALIDATION
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Animesh Biswas
Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science
1st Place: Lana Janson, Faith Sheridan, Wade Van Riessen, Markos Georgy, Abhishu Chand
FORMULATING CHIITOSAN NANOPARTICLES LOADED WITH DOXORUBICIN AND A 77KS ADJUVANT FOR
CANCER DRUG DELIVERY
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Robert Mayanovic and Dr. Kyoungtae Kim
2nd Place: Armitha Dutta, Annie Aggarwal
QUANTUM KERNAL SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR MULTI-CLASS TRANSIENT CLASSIFICATION
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Robert A. Mayanovic
High School Division
1st Place: Ellie Allgood and Lilly Reaves
RESUSCITATION OF DORMANT MICROALGAE IN ALABAMA GULF SHORE SEDIMENT SAMPLES
Faculty Advisor: Keith Jones
2nd Place: Brodie Mohler
CHARACTERIZATION OF TGP-E H172S
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Natasha DeVore